The Swapmeet Movement, first feature Alpine Village

Swap meet clicka is a state of mind and a state of life. It was created from imagination back around 1997. Since then it has had hundreds and thousands of members. If you are Mexican or any other Hispanic origin swap meet clicka is in your blood and sweat everyday as we push our carritos down the main streets. We are about selling everything from corn to oranges, yantas, old toys, car parts and tools, colchones, aparatos usados,you name it we sell it.We got big loving families kids older then our selves therefore we drive big GMC vans of all colors of the rainbow we stick to the classic forget what year it is. Our original home plate is Harbor College in Wilmington but after years we learned to collaborate with all the swapmeeteros of our kind. I am starting a revolution to bring back the swap meet forget the malls and boutiques, its all here on one big parking lot. The first feature of of this collaboration is Alpine Village swap meet located in the city of Carson Ca, but as a side note please feel free to comment or contribute your swap meet stories or pictures to the page and I will definitely post it up...
Special shout outs to...Doña Licha, Doña Nopal,Chona, Geronimo, Peluca, Caldo de Res, Don Tomado, Don Fidel, Poncho,Totoyo, Pan Bimbo, Tortilla de Harina,Doña Junta, Don Cristalino, Panfilo, Refujio, Don Tiodoro, El Guante, El Picudo, Raspados, Chapopte, Doña Filomena, Florintino,
Senor YerbaBuena, Don Maklovio, Carne Asada, lil Bigote, Piojo, Don Manteca, Don Barriga y muchos mas! also join our swapmeet clicka myspace

Alpine Village is a pretty ok swap meet, they mostly carry mass amounts of tools and a lot of things are a little junky but if you dig around you maybe can find good parts if you are trying to do a fixer upper on something. They also do carry fresh fruit and Veggies.



The Swap meet is named after a run down German Village located on the grounds they do have good Sunday brunch and around Halloween a grand October Fest.


Que Que?? it was a cheap price too!

"Made In LA" showing Sunday, April 27 2008

You all got to catch this film tomorrow evening in San Pedro at the historic Warner Grand Theater for tickets and schedule link

here is a preview of film


or check out website

Dream wall San Pedro

A few local artists recently created this mural in Pedro in the ally between 6th and 5th right below Pacific. The theme is defiantly very fresh, it mostly consisted of acrylic paint, lots spray painted stencils and other media anyhow awesome work!







Snake?? lol

LA Bridge Tour

As you all might know I been obsessed with LA walking historical tours, For my self I love hearing the history but I also love that I can jot down interesting spots to paint in the areas.
this weekend the LA Conservancy had the first annual Spanning History of the LA river Bridges. Basically the conservancy and Friends of LA River(FOLAR) set up different booths with educational material, activities and more at each bridge featured in the event. The first stop was the 6th st bridge which was one of my favorites because the tunnel going into the river, there they gave a brief history and talked about the molecular structure of the bridge, apparently its deteriorating from the inside out because silica was used with the cement when making the bridge therefore silica expands and is weak and in risk of falling apart.We also got to go through the tunnel into the river now with my painting I never really wanted to go into that tunnel at night its really creepy I only been mostly around it lol.
The second stop was 4th st bridge after a brief introduction to the history we got to meet Merrill Butler III grandson of the man who designed the bridges, his talk about his grandfather was very touching, It was a pleasure to meet family of someone who created such historical significance.There was also a set up from the movie industry and its meaning in the LA River,there was plenty of clips they were showing from the many movies filmed at the river, The man who filmed Grease was there but I had left before he came.The third stop was the First st bridge at that stop was many photos and display boards featuring the engineering of all the bridges as well as a brief history lesson. Last but not least we headed to the Seventh st Bridge which is really cool and interesting because it is actually a double Decker bridge, the first layer was built over to what it is today so it was pretty much extended upward.Here are a few pix I took Enjoy as well as link to LA Times article
6th st Bridge





4th st Bridge

7th st Bridge( double decker)

LA vs War Downtown April 10-13

LA vs. WAR clik on link for more info
April 10-13 2008 - Downtown LA
4 days of Art and Activism starting tommarow check it out

Spring Art walk in Lincoln Heights

This weekend was a pretty cool art walk off Main st in Lincoln Heights it was nice but hella crowded so some what so in a way it was uncomfortable and hot , we only checked out a few galleries lots of cool exhibits and the pix I did take was on way to art walk and that would be my one of my loves grimy street Arte check it.....


La River work and vicinity




That Zoueh been running for a min already



La Mano press was on the way to Art walk pretty school spot for screen printing, woodcuts ect



China Town


Cool old steel Building, this is basically the only few pictures I took at the actual art walk!

April Fools Group Show Pix

It was a great spot and a cool turn out, not to mention awesome art on display






D.J Ghetto dropping the dancing beats
Chola Stilo 1979










Homies